We've been chomping at the bit for more news around the movie adaptation of Erin Morgenstern's best-selling debut novel The Night Circus since we first learned it was optioned in January 2011.The Hollywood Reporter threw us a tidbit today, with the news that Moira Buffini, who wrote the screenplay for Cary Fukunaga's adaptation of Jane Eyre, has taken up the task. Oh, 2013: You just can't get here fast enough.

The Daily Beast claims that Disney's "John Carter" (based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs character) is a quarter-billion-dollar fiasco. Will heads, in fact, roll? Or will the movie swell to fill the post-Oscar movie release dead spot? I love to root for an underdog, but they had better give me more than rehashed Riddick-meets-300 CGI fight scenes. Is it too late to at least drop in a little (non-alien) nudity? Here's the trailer in case you've already forgotten what you were supposed to be looking forward to all these months.

You know who interviewed a bestselling author this week? I did! Check out this post at XO Jane about Deborah Feldman, a young woman who rejected her devout Hasidic Jewish upbringing and then wrote a knockout memoir about the experience. (You may have seen her on "The View" last week -- her story moved Barbara Walters to big blubbery tears.)